The Skills for Care team will evaluate the effectiveness of the programme, value for money, sustainability and the overall impact it has had on learners and quality.
The Skills for Care team will work on a consultative basis with Care City to help develop the recently launched Quality Improvement Programme and the outputs of the evaluation will help to inform future similar projects.
Care City’s new Quality Improvement function aims to improve the effectiveness of health and care services across Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Redbridge and Waltham Forest and make sustainable improvements where required. It complements trust specific programmes and helps to address the challenging issues that require people from across our health and care system to work together collaboratively.
Dean Rigg, quality improvement lead, Care City commented “Quality is at the heart of Care City and everything we do and there is a real appetite amongst our health and social care colleagues to ensure it is at the heart of their organisations also. Since launching our QI Programme, we have trained our fifth cohort of health and social care colleagues in the foundations of QI with our most recent module receiving 100% positive feedback. It is therefore imperative that we continue to ensure the integrity of the Programme and that it continues to meet the needs of the Industry and we are delighted to be collaborating with Skills for Life to guarantee we do this"
Paul Buchanan, Programme Head for Evidence and Impact, Skills for Care commented “We are delighted to be collaborating with Care City by conducting an independent evaluation, helping to ensure the integrity of its Quality Improvement Programme.” Dean continued “We are now looking for colleagues from health and social care, who are passionate about delivering high quality and sustainable care to the people of BHR and Waltham Forest to be trained as quality improvement coaches and to assist in spreading quality improvement skills and lead on quality improvement initiatives.”
To learn more please see the Quality Improvement page on the Care City website, where health and social care colleagues can also register for the training modules.
For more information please contact Dean Rigg on [email protected].
About Care City
Care City is a Healthy Ageing Innovation Centre that has been created by local health and social care partners to deliver measurable improvements in health for the population we serve and to act as a catalyst for regenerating one of London’s most deprived regions.
Central to our work is a commitment to work in partnership with the local community to ensure that the research, innovation and education we deliver is driven by their needs.
About Skills for Care
Skills for Care helps create a well-led, skilled and valued adult social care workforce. We provide practical tools and support to help organisations recruit, develop and lead their workforce to raise quality standards and make sure dignity and respect are at the heart of service delivery. Our evidence and impact team ensure our work is evidence based and we have the expertise to help other organisations focus on service improvement and demonstration of impact. We’ve worked with a number of organisations to help them develop evidence to inform what they do and assess their impact.